How to import a richly formatted html text to textflow with importer?

hey all
i am trying this:
open google docs, new document, and type in:
hello world
(world bolded)
then download it as html(zipped)
i unzip the html file, and save it to the assets folder in src folder of my Flex app
i have a Spark:TextArea instance and i want to do:
var importer:ITextImporter = TextConverter.getImporter(TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
myTextArea.textFlow = importer.importToFlow(htmlSource);
where htmlSource should point to the saved html file somehow
how do i do this? i tryed embedding, converting to ByteArrayAsset and to String, but i always get the source of the html file and not it's rendered rich text (ie "hello world).
this is what i c at runtime:
Untitled documentol{margin:0;padding:0}p{margin:0}.c0{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Ari al;font-weight:bold}.c3{line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt;direction:ltr}.c2{color:#000000;f ont-size:11pt;font-family:Arial}.c1{background-color:#ffffff}
hello world
am i clear?
any help?
thanx

Hi Wim,
It is about dynamic and your solution was indeed correct. I failed earlier in this way due to wrong (non compatible) images.But it keeps difficult stuff for me to setup a smooth interface.>
What is smooth? If you mean page and images take time to load then it has to do with the size (bytes) of the images. Just reducing the height and width of images will not help. No matter which method you use if the images are bulky then the page will take time to load, especially the images.
>
Since I'm still investigating: do you now if those Ajax calls you mention would smoothen things for me ( I forsee I have to do a lot of things with pictures )?
In that case: do you know of some example app?
>
AJAX is not going to make it faster. Neither is hosting the images on webserver going to eliminate the problem. You need to reduce the size (byes) of the images.
Cheers,

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